Neighbours said Neha Shoree’s family was one of the earliest settlers in Sector 6 and had started renovating their house, following which they had shifted into the present house on rent, owned by a retired bureaucrat in Sector 6, Panchkula, where they lived with Varun’s mother and sister Shikha.

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The neighbours remember Neha as a warm, bubbly person who would wish them on her way to office every day.

Neha, who leaves behind a two-year-old daughter, married Varun Monga around three years ago. Monga works for a private sector bank in Chandigarh.

A neighbour, who didn’t want to be named, said it was a small and happy family. ‘’We didn’t really know them intimately, but we knew that Neha used to commute for work to Kharar in a private cab every day, and she would leave her daughter with her mother in Sector 12 A. She was home only on the weekends.’’